{"id":99,"date":"2012-02-27T16:45:02","date_gmt":"2012-02-27T22:45:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/code.angelmarquez.com\/blog\/?p=99"},"modified":"2012-02-27T16:45:02","modified_gmt":"2012-02-27T22:45:02","slug":"windbg-locks-is-broken","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/code.angelmarquez.com\/blog\/2012\/02\/27\/windbg-locks-is-broken\/","title":{"rendered":"WinDBG !locks is broken"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is old news, but I just discovered it today.<\/p>\n<p>Apparently WinDbg !locks command is broken in the last stand-alone release of Debugging Tools for Windows. To fix the issue you need to download the WDK or <a href=\"http:\/\/msdl.microsoft.com\/download\/symbols\/debuggers\/dbg_x86_6.10.3.233.msi\">downgrade to the previous version (6.10)<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Found via\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.voyce.com\/index.php\/2009\/06\/03\/windbg-locks-command-broken\/\">http:\/\/www.voyce.com\/index.php\/2009\/06\/03\/windbg-locks-command-broken\/<\/a>\u00a0while trying to track down a deadlock. I forgot how fun crash analysis can be . I say that both seriously and sarcastically at the same time. When your tools are broken it can lead to hours of wasted time. \ud83d\ude41<\/p>\n<p>-Angel<\/p>\n<p>Personal note for later lookup: MS Symbol server path (for easy pasting):<br \/>\n<strong>SRV*W:\\Symbols*http:\/\/msdl.microsoft.com\/download\/symbols;c:\\temp<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Dump any spare symbols you need in temp (not a best practice!)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is old news, but I just discovered it today. Apparently WinDbg !locks command is broken in the last stand-alone release of Debugging Tools for Windows. To fix the issue you need to download the WDK or downgrade to the previous version (6.10). Found via\u00a0http:\/\/www.voyce.com\/index.php\/2009\/06\/03\/windbg-locks-command-broken\/\u00a0while trying to track down a deadlock. I forgot how fun [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[27,28,26],"class_list":["post-99","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-debugging","tag-symbols","tag-windbg"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/code.angelmarquez.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/code.angelmarquez.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/code.angelmarquez.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/code.angelmarquez.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/code.angelmarquez.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=99"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/code.angelmarquez.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":102,"href":"https:\/\/code.angelmarquez.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99\/revisions\/102"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/code.angelmarquez.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/code.angelmarquez.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/code.angelmarquez.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}